(urth) fifth head owlet- wolf‏

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> From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
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>On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:42 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> 
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>I never bought into the death of the author when that author was a unique genius of subtlety.  I just maintain Wolfe loves puzzles and will always be an engineer.  He follows patterns as well- identity and personal motive occluding objective narration, with enough hints about the subjectivity (usually) to achieve an objective situation.
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>Agreed.
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>However, I want to repeat Gerry's point about internal consistency. When we interpret a work as containing 1+ practically independent stories with only a few solid points of contact with the "obvious" story (no matter how many "soft" points there may be when the work is held up to the light at a certain angle), internal consistency is just about all you have. Even when there are preexisting narratives (along the lines of Odysseus the a basis for Ulysses), internal consistency is needed. Not just dogged uniformity, or else Aunt Polly would indeed be a robot---because everyone would be a robot.
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>Here, I'd like to see some clarification of trees vs maggots, keeping in mind that we don't have word for "dendrilarvae," just as we don't have a word for "parasitic herpevines."
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